Dining Etiquette

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Dining etiquette can be critical to career growth. Employers look to these social situations, to see how employees conduct themselves.

Dos and don'ts for business lunches, dinners and cocktail parties:

• Always wait for your host to sit down first before taking your seat.
• Never talk with your mouth full and never point with utensils.
• Sit up straight and keep your feet flat on the floor or cross your legs at the ankle. Crossing your legs during the meal causes you to slouch and looks too sloppy and casual.
• Never drink too much. You will lose your tact, sharpness and ability to conduct yourself in a businesslike manner.
• When eating soup, dip your spoon away from yourself to fill your spoon with soup. Rest your spoon periodically.

• No grooming of any kind should be done at the table. Excuse yourself.